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	Epochen der deutschen Lyrik: Von den Anfaengen bis 1300 Munich: DTV, 1978. A an extensive scholarly anthology of Medieval German poetry. 8vo, original wraps. Fine. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 947 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	HUE ARCHEVESQUE (A. HERON, EDITOR) Les Dits de Hue Archevesque, trouvere normand du XIIIe siecle Rouen / Paris: Societe Rouennaise de Bibliophiles / A. Claudin, 1885. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. Of the four texts, two appear here in first edition. EDITION LIMITED TO 115 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS ONE OF ONLY FORTY COPIES SOLD TO THE PUBLIC (the rest were for members of the Societe Rouennaise de Bibliophiles and their friends, and have a different imprint on the title-page). Printed on fine handmade laid paper, with large margins (these forty copies are in a somewhat larger format than the other 75). 4to. Attractively bound in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Minimal wear to extremities and fading to spine, else FINE AND BRIGHT. Vicaire I, 573. USD 375.00 [Appr.: EURO 252.25 \| £UK 225 \| JP¥ 33345] Book number: 2775 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	GAUTIER D'ARRAS (E. LOSETH, EDITOR) Oeuvres de Gautier d'Arras. Tome Premier: Eracle. [with] Tome Second: Ille et Galeron. Paris: Emile Bouillon, 1890. Two volumes bound in one, complete. FIRST PRINTING of the collected works of Gautier d'Arras, the greatest medieval French romancier after Chretien de Troyes. Eracle had been printed once before, in Germany (see Cole 1842/3), but Ille et Galeron appears here in FIRST EDITION. (4) leaves; 343 pp.; (4) leaves; 243 pp. PRINTED ON FINE LAID PAPER. 8vo. Attractively bound in marbled boards, original wraps preserved. ENTIRELY UNCUT, FINE, AND BRIGHT. An excellent set. Bossuat 1115. USD 375.00 [Appr.: EURO 252.25 \| £UK 225 \| JP¥ 33345] Book number: 3081 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	BERTRAND DE BAR-SUR-AUBE (LOUIS DEMAISON, EDITOR) Aymeri (Aimeri) de Narbonne. Chanson de Geste Paris: Didot / Societe des Anciens Textes Francais, 1887. Two volumes, complete. FIRST EDITION of this highly important chanson de geste. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Beautifully printed. Volume I is on fine laid paper; volume II is one of only 100 copies printed on fine wove paper (Whatman). Large 8vo. Original cloth (volume I) and original parchment wraps (volume II). Uncut, with minimal wear to covers. Internally fine. Bossuat 154; Gautier 647. USD 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 185 \| £UK 165 \| JP¥ 24453] Book number: 1215 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	BEACH, GOODWIN B. AND FORD LEWIS BATTLES Locutionum Cotidianarum Glossarium. A Guide to Latin Conversation. (LOCUTIONVM COTIDIANARVM GLOSSARIVM) Hartford, Connecticut: Hartford Seminary Press, 1961. The rare FIRST PRINTING of the first Latin glossary compiled for the 20th-century speaker. vii, 89 pp (oddly, the odd-numbered pages appear on the left). Arranged by subject. Covers all aspects of life (well, almost all), from "Cette panem!" ("pass the bread!") to "caseus caprinus" ("goat's milk cheese") to "labrum eluacrum machinale" ("washing machine"). 8vo. Original textured wraps. A tiny bit of wear to wraps, internally FINE AND BRIGHT. USD 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 131.25 \| £UK 117 \| JP¥ 17339] Book number: 3544 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI Rime di Messer Giovanni Boccacci (Boccaccio) Livorno: Tommaso Masi e Compagno co' Caratteri Bodoniani (Bodoni), 1802. First edition of Boccaccio's poems. While far better known for his Decameron and other prose works, this Florentine author produced a small but important poetic oeuvre. Particularly notable is his summary, in terza rima, of Dante's Divine Comedy. Beautifully printed with Bodoni's types. 8vo. Attractively bound in contemporary quarter calf and decorated boards. Slight wear to binding. Internally FINE AND BRIGHT. Rare. Brunet I, 994; Graesse I, 448. USD 495.00 [Appr.: EURO 332.75 \| £UK 296.75 \| JP¥ 44015] Book number: 1282 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	MANESSE, RUEDIGER (RUDIGER) (WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE ET AL.) (JOHANN JACOB BODMER AND JOHANN JACOB BREITINGER, EDITORS) Sammlung von Minnesingern aus dem schwaebischen Zeitpuncte, CXL Dichter enthaltend; durch Ruedger Manessen, Weiland des Rathes der uralten Zyrich. Aus der Handschrift der Koeniglich-Franzoesischen Bibliotheck Herausgegeben Zyrich (Zurich): Conrad Orell und Comp. 1758-1759. Two volumes bound in one, complete. First edition of the Manessische Handschrift (also known as the Grosse Heidelberger Liederhandschrift), compiled in the 14th century and far and away the most important collection of medieval German lyric verse. Thus also the first edition of virtually the entire surviving body of Middle High German poetry. Includes the work of 140 poets, including Walther von der Vogelweide, Reinmar der Alte, Gottfried von Strassburg, Hartmann von Aue, Niedhart von Reuenthal, Kaiser Heinrich, and Reinmar der Zweite. 4to. Very attractively bound in contempporary quarter vellum and speckled boards. Beautifully color-printed endleaves. Slight soiling and wear to binding. Internally clean. Brunet III, 1362; Graesse IV, 362. Very important and very rare, especially in such good condition. USD 2950.00 [Appr.: EURO 1982.5 \| £UK 1768.5 \| JP¥ 262311] Book number: 1378 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	BOILEAU, L'ABBE JACQUES De l'abus des nudites de la gorge Paris: Adolphe Delahays / Librairie Gauloise, 1858. 131 pp + 12 pp (publisher's catalogue). Printed on fine, thick laid paper. 8vo. Original wraps. Wraps a bit worn, spine split. Internally UNCUT, FINE, AND BRIGHT. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 3547 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	ROBERT DE BORON (BORRON) ET AL. (EUGENE HUCHER, EDITOR) Le Saint-Graal ou le Joseph d'Arimathie, premiere branche des Romans de la Table Ronde, publie d'apres des textes et des documents inedits (Joseph of Arimathea, Holy Grail, Percival, Perceval) Le Mans and Paris: Monnoyer, 1875-1878. Three volumes, complete. First edition of many of the earliest and most important texts concerning the Holy Grail, including the "Joseph of Arimathea" of Robert de Boron, the Didot-Perceval, and the Estoire del Saint-Graal. About 2000 pages in all. Small, thick 8vo, contemporary morocco over marbled boards, original wraps bound in. Light wear to extremities, internally fine. Rare. Bossuat 1908 and 1956. USD 395.00 [Appr.: EURO 265.5 \| £UK 237 \| JP¥ 35123] Book number: 1286 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	ADAM LE BOSSU (ERNEST LANGLOIS, EDITOR) Le Jeu de Robin et Marion Paris: Fontemoing, 1896. An attractive edition of this medieval French lyric drama. Several pages of musical notation at end. One of 500 numbered copies. Engravd bookplate of George L. Lincoln. 8vo, Three quarters morocco over marbled boards. Very light shelfwear to binding, spine a little darkened. Internally fine. An attractive book. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.75 \| £UK 21 \| JP¥ 3112] Book number: 1374 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	BOSSUAT, ROBERT (EDITOR) Berinus. Roman en prose du XIVe siecle. Paris: Societe des Anciens Textes Francais (SATF), 1931-1933. Two volumes, complete. FIRST EDITION of this important 14th-century Middle French prose romance. Includes (also in first edition) the fragments of the 13th-century Old French poem on which the prose work is based. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Large 8vo, original cloth. Uncut and unopened. Bindings lightly worn. INTERNALLY FINE AND BRIGHT. Bossuat 4100. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 168.25 \| £UK 150 \| JP¥ 22230] Book number: 3498 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	RENAUT (OR POSSIBLY JEAN RENART) (ANATOLE BOUCHERIE, EDITOR) Le Roman de Galerent, comte de Bretagne, par le trouvere Renaut, publie pour la premiere fois d'apres le manuscrit unique de la Bibliotheque Nationale (Galeran, Gallerent) Montpellier and Paris: Au Bureau des Publications de la Societe / Maisonneuve et Charles LeClerc, 1888. FIRST EDITION of this important romance of chivalry. XV, 220 pp. Printed on good wove paper. Frontispiece etched portrait of the editor, printed on fine laid paper. 8vo. Attractively bound in recent marbled boards. Original wraps preserved. Uncut. FINE AND BRIGHT. Very scarce. Bossuat 1224. USD 295.00 [Appr.: EURO 198.25 \| £UK 177 \| JP¥ 26231] Book number: 3186 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	NICOLE BOZON (LUCY TOULMIN SMITH AND PAUL MEYER, EDITORS) Les contes moralises de Nicole Bozon, frere mineur. Publies pour la premiere fois d'apres les manuscrits de Londres et de Cheltenham Paris: Firmin Didot / Societe d'Anciens Textes Francais, 1889. FIRST EDITION of this celebrated (and extremely entertaining) collection of fables, composed c. 1300 and designed for use in sermons. 2 leaves; LXXV, 333 pp.; 1 leaf. ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES PRINTED ON FINE WHATMAN WOVE PAPER. Title-page printed in red and black. Large 8vo. Attractively bound in recent marbled boards. Original parchment wraps preserved. FINE AND BRIGHT. Bossuat 3535; Vicaire I, 61. USD 375.00 [Appr.: EURO 252.25 \| £UK 225 \| JP¥ 33345] Book number: 2819 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	BRUNEL, CLOVIS (EDITOR) La Fille du comte de Pontieu, conte en prose. Versions du XIIIe et du XVe siecle. ("La comtesse de Ponthieu") Paris: Societe des Anciens Textes Francais (SATF) / Librairie Ancienne Honore Champion, 1923. First and only critical edition of this important prose tale. Includes both the 13th-century and the 15-century recensions. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Large 8vo, original cloth. Uncut. Binding lightly worn and discolored. INTERNALLY FINE AND BRIGHT. Bossuat 1310. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 3500 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	GERBERT (GILBERT) DE MONTREUIL (DOUGLAS LABAREE BUFFUM, EDITOR) Le Roman de la Violette ou de Gerart de Nevers par Gerbert (Gilbert) de Montreuil Paris: Societe des Anciens Textes Francais (SATF) / Honore Champion, 1928. FIRST CRITICAL EDITION of this important romance. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Large 8vo, original cloth. Uncut. FINE AND BRIGHT. Bossuat 1130. USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 64 \| £UK 57 \| JP¥ 8447] Book number: 3502 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	CAMBOULIU, F.R. (FRA ROCABERTI, DANTE, ANDREU FEBRER) Essai sur l'histoire de la litterature catalane...augmentee de la comedia de LA GLORIA D'AMOR Paris: Durand, 1858. A scholarly survey of Catalan literature. In the appendix we find the FIRST EDITION OF FRA ROCABERTI'S GLORIA D'AMOR, AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT MEDIEVAL VISION POEM, as well as THE FIRST EDITION OF TWO IMPORTANT FRAGMENTS OF ANDREU FEBRER'S TRANSLATION OF DANTE'S INFERNO (Canto I and the Ugolino episode from Canto XXXIII). 2 leaves, 189 pp. Printed on good wove paper. 8vo. Original wraps. Margins of front wrapper repaired. Internally FINE AND BRIGHT. Very scarce. USD 295.00 [Appr.: EURO 198.25 \| £UK 177 \| JP¥ 26231] Book number: 3285 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA Dietaris de la Generalitat de Catalunya (1411-1713) Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, 1994-2008. Ten volumes, complete. The complete proceedings of the Generalitat from its foundation until the disaster of 1713. Folio. THE DELUXE ISSUE, BOUND IN FULL LEATHER. Fine and bright. USD 1250.00 [Appr.: EURO 840.25 \| £UK 749.5 \| JP¥ 111149] Book number: 3426 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA Dietaris de la Generalitat de Catalunya (1411-1713) Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, 1994-2008. Ten volumes, complete. The complete proceedings of the Generalitat from its foundation until the disaster of 1713. Folio. Publisher's wraps. Fine and bright. USD 975.00 [Appr.: EURO 655.25 \| £UK 584.5 \| JP¥ 86696] Book number: 3427 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	AGNES DE NAVARRE-CHAMPAGNE (PROSPER TARBE, EDITOR) Poesies d'Agnes de Navarre-Champagne (Agnes) Paris and Reims: Auguste Aubry and Brissart-Binet, 1856. First edition of the works of this important medieval poet. Edition limited to 300 copies, including 10 on blue paper and 255 on laid paper. This copy is printed on laid paper except for two quires, which are on blue paper. Unobtrusive stamp of the Museum of French Art on title-page. Large 8vo, bound in recent cloth, original wraps bound in. Uncut and fine. A rare book. USD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 117.75 \| £UK 105 \| JP¥ 15561] Book number: 1616 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	CHARTIER, ALAIN (PHILIPPE DE CHENNEVIERES, EDITOR) Rondeaux et ballades inedits d' Alain Chartier, publies d'apres un manuscrit de la Bibliotheque Mejanes, a Aix. Paris: Felix Poisson, 1846. FIRST EDITION of these newly-discovered works by Chartier. v, [10] pp. Introduction by Chennevieres. Text beautifully printed in red and black in black letter (Gothic type). Edition limited to 120 copies printed on fine handmade laid paper. Squarish 8vo. Original plain wraps, with "Alain Chartier" written in calligraphy on fron cover. Minimal wear and soiling to wraps. Internally uncut, bright, and fine. VERY RARE. USD 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 185 \| £UK 165 \| JP¥ 24453] Book number: 2742 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	CLOETTA, WILHELM (EDITOR) Les deux redactions en vers du moniage Guillaume Paris: Firmin-Didot / Societe des Anciens Textes Francais, 1906-1911. Two volumes, complete. FIRST EDITION of both versions of this highly important chanson de geste. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. From the collection of Brian Woldedge, whose 2-volumebibliography of medieval French prose fiction is still standard (his signature on front free endpaper of volume I). Large 8vo, original cloth. Uncut. Minor traces of wear to covers. Tiny marginal inkstain to first few leaves of volume II, else internally fine. Bossuat 583. USD 325.00 [Appr.: EURO 218.5 \| £UK 195 \| JP¥ 28899] Book number: 1266 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	COMPAGNI, DINO Cronaca fiorentina di Messer Dino Compagni dal MCCLXXX al MCCCXII (Compagni's Chronicle of Florence) (Cronica) Livorno: Glauco Masi, 1843. An early edition of this important chronicle. Compagni's history is especially important insofar as it recounts many of the events referred to in Dante's Divine Comedy. Printed on wove paper. 16mo. Bound in contemporary quarter cloth and decorated boards. Light wear to binding but overall a very good copy of a scarce item. USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 64 \| £UK 57 \| JP¥ 8447] Book number: 1716 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	CONSTANS, LEOPOLD (ED.) Le roman de Thebes Paris: Didot / Societe des Anciens Textes Francais, 1890. Two volumes, complete. First edition of this extremely important medieval French retelling of the Oedipus legend. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Large 8vo, original cloth. Uncut and largely unopened. Minimal wear to extremities of bindings. Internally fine. Bossuat 1007. USD 325.00 [Appr.: EURO 218.5 \| £UK 195 \| JP¥ 28899] Book number: 1639 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	CONSTANS, LEOPOLD, EDITOR Le roman de Thebes Paris: Didot / Societe des Anciens Textes Francais, 1890. Two volumes, complete. First edition of this extremely important medieval French retelling of the Oedipus legend. One of 100 large-paper copies finely printed on Whatman wove paper. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Large 8vo, original wraps. Uncut and unopened. Wraps lightly soiled and chipped. Internally fine. Bossuat 1007. USD 475.00 [Appr.: EURO 319.25 \| £UK 284.75 \| JP¥ 42237] Book number: 1214 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	MAURICE AND PIERRE DE CRAON (G.-S. TREBUTIEN, EDITOR) Chansons de Maurice et de Pierre de Craon, poetes anglo-normands du XIIe siecle Caen: B. Mancel, 1843. FIRST EDITION of the songs of Maurice and Pierre de Craon. Maurice de Craon and his son Pierre were Anglo-Norman nobles who composed these songs in England during the late 12th and early 13th centuries--only a few generations after the conquest. Of the five poems printed here, two are probably authentic. Edition limited to 120 numbered copies, of which this is one of 85 printed on fine laid paper. Initialed in ink by the editor. Squarish 4to. Bound in marbled boards. Library perforation stamp on title-page, else fine and bright. Bossuat 2366; Brunet II, 407; Cole 1843/1; Frere I, 305; Graesse VII, 222; Techener II, 9540. Rare. USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 64 \| £UK 57 \| JP¥ 8447] Book number: 2828 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.

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	Epochen der deutschen Lyrik: Von den Anfaengen bis 1300 Munich: DTV, 1978. A an extensive scholarly anthology of Medieval German poetry. 8vo, original wraps. Fine. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1778] Book number: 947 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	HUE ARCHEVESQUE (A. HERON, EDITOR) Les Dits de Hue Archevesque, trouvere normand du XIIIe siecle Rouen / Paris: Societe Rouennaise de Bibliophiles / A. Claudin, 1885. FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. Of the four texts, two appear here in first edition. EDITION LIMITED TO 115 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS ONE OF ONLY FORTY COPIES SOLD TO THE PUBLIC (the rest were for members of the Societe Rouennaise de Bibliophiles and their friends, and have a different imprint on the title-page). Printed on fine handmade laid paper, with large margins (these forty copies are in a somewhat larger format than the other 75). 4to. Attractively bound in contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Minimal wear to extremities and fading to spine, else FINE AND BRIGHT. Vicaire I, 573. USD 375.00 [Appr.: EURO 252.25 \| £UK 225 \| JP¥ 33345] Book number: 2775 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	GAUTIER D'ARRAS (E. LOSETH, EDITOR) Oeuvres de Gautier d'Arras. Tome Premier: Eracle. [with] Tome Second: Ille et Galeron. Paris: Emile Bouillon, 1890. Two volumes bound in one, complete. FIRST PRINTING of the collected works of Gautier d'Arras, the greatest medieval French romancier after Chretien de Troyes. Eracle had been printed once before, in Germany (see Cole 1842/3), but Ille et Galeron appears here in FIRST EDITION. (4) leaves; 343 pp.; (4) leaves; 243 pp. PRINTED ON FINE LAID PAPER. 8vo. Attractively bound in marbled boards, original wraps preserved. ENTIRELY UNCUT, FINE, AND BRIGHT. An excellent set. Bossuat 1115. USD 375.00 [Appr.: EURO 252.25 \| £UK 225 \| JP¥ 33345] Book number: 3081 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	BERTRAND DE BAR-SUR-AUBE (LOUIS DEMAISON, EDITOR) Aymeri (Aimeri) de Narbonne. Chanson de Geste Paris: Didot / Societe des Anciens Textes Francais, 1887. Two volumes, complete. FIRST EDITION of this highly important chanson de geste. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Beautifully printed. Volume I is on fine laid paper; volume II is one of only 100 copies printed on fine wove paper (Whatman). Large 8vo. Original cloth (volume I) and original parchment wraps (volume II). Uncut, with minimal wear to covers. Internally fine. Bossuat 154; Gautier 647. USD 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 185 \| £UK 165 \| JP¥ 24453] Book number: 1215 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	BEACH, GOODWIN B. AND FORD LEWIS BATTLES Locutionum Cotidianarum Glossarium. A Guide to Latin Conversation. (LOCUTIONVM COTIDIANARVM GLOSSARIVM) Hartford, Connecticut: Hartford Seminary Press, 1961. The rare FIRST PRINTING of the first Latin glossary compiled for the 20th-century speaker. vii, 89 pp (oddly, the odd-numbered pages appear on the left). Arranged by subject. Covers all aspects of life (well, almost all), from "Cette panem!" ("pass the bread!") to "caseus caprinus" ("goat's milk cheese") to "labrum eluacrum machinale" ("washing machine"). 8vo. Original textured wraps. A tiny bit of wear to wraps, internally FINE AND BRIGHT. USD 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 131.25 \| £UK 117 \| JP¥ 17339] Book number: 3544 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI Rime di Messer Giovanni Boccacci (Boccaccio) Livorno: Tommaso Masi e Compagno co' Caratteri Bodoniani (Bodoni), 1802. First edition of Boccaccio's poems. While far better known for his Decameron and other prose works, this Florentine author produced a small but important poetic oeuvre. Particularly notable is his summary, in terza rima, of Dante's Divine Comedy. Beautifully printed with Bodoni's types. 8vo. Attractively bound in contemporary quarter calf and decorated boards. Slight wear to binding. Internally FINE AND BRIGHT. Rare. Brunet I, 994; Graesse I, 448. USD 495.00 [Appr.: EURO 332.75 \| £UK 296.75 \| JP¥ 44015] Book number: 1282 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	MANESSE, RUEDIGER (RUDIGER) (WALTHER VON DER VOGELWEIDE ET AL.) (JOHANN JACOB BODMER AND JOHANN JACOB BREITINGER, EDITORS) Sammlung von Minnesingern aus dem schwaebischen Zeitpuncte, CXL Dichter enthaltend; durch Ruedger Manessen, Weiland des Rathes der uralten Zyrich. Aus der Handschrift der Koeniglich-Franzoesischen Bibliotheck Herausgegeben Zyrich (Zurich): Conrad Orell und Comp. 1758-1759. Two volumes bound in one, complete. First edition of the Manessische Handschrift (also known as the Grosse Heidelberger Liederhandschrift), compiled in the 14th century and far and away the most important collection of medieval German lyric verse. Thus also the first edition of virtually the entire surviving body of Middle High German poetry. Includes the work of 140 poets, including Walther von der Vogelweide, Reinmar der Alte, Gottfried von Strassburg, Hartmann von Aue, Niedhart von Reuenthal, Kaiser Heinrich, and Reinmar der Zweite. 4to. Very attractively bound in contempporary quarter vellum and speckled boards. Beautifully color-printed endleaves. Slight soiling and wear to binding. Internally clean. Brunet III, 1362; Graesse IV, 362. Very important and very rare, especially in such good condition. USD 2950.00 [Appr.: EURO 1982.5 \| £UK 1768.5 \| JP¥ 262311] Book number: 1378 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	BOILEAU, L'ABBE JACQUES De l'abus des nudites de la gorge Paris: Adolphe Delahays / Librairie Gauloise, 1858. 131 pp + 12 pp (publisher's catalogue). Printed on fine, thick laid paper. 8vo. Original wraps. Wraps a bit worn, spine split. Internally UNCUT, FINE, AND BRIGHT. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 27 \| £UK 24 \| JP¥ 3557] Book number: 3547 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	ROBERT DE BORON (BORRON) ET AL. (EUGENE HUCHER, EDITOR) Le Saint-Graal ou le Joseph d'Arimathie, premiere branche des Romans de la Table Ronde, publie d'apres des textes et des documents inedits (Joseph of Arimathea, Holy Grail, Percival, Perceval) Le Mans and Paris: Monnoyer, 1875-1878. Three volumes, complete. First edition of many of the earliest and most important texts concerning the Holy Grail, including the "Joseph of Arimathea" of Robert de Boron, the Didot-Perceval, and the Estoire del Saint-Graal. About 2000 pages in all. Small, thick 8vo, contemporary morocco over marbled boards, original wraps bound in. Light wear to extremities, internally fine. Rare. Bossuat 1908 and 1956. USD 395.00 [Appr.: EURO 265.5 \| £UK 237 \| JP¥ 35123] Book number: 1286 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	ADAM LE BOSSU (ERNEST LANGLOIS, EDITOR) Le Jeu de Robin et Marion Paris: Fontemoing, 1896. An attractive edition of this medieval French lyric drama. Several pages of musical notation at end. One of 500 numbered copies. Engravd bookplate of George L. Lincoln. 8vo, Three quarters morocco over marbled boards. Very light shelfwear to binding, spine a little darkened. Internally fine. An attractive book. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.75 \| £UK 21 \| JP¥ 3112] Book number: 1374 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	BOSSUAT, ROBERT (EDITOR) Berinus. Roman en prose du XIVe siecle. Paris: Societe des Anciens Textes Francais (SATF), 1931-1933. Two volumes, complete. FIRST EDITION of this important 14th-century Middle French prose romance. Includes (also in first edition) the fragments of the 13th-century Old French poem on which the prose work is based. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Large 8vo, original cloth. Uncut and unopened. Bindings lightly worn. INTERNALLY FINE AND BRIGHT. Bossuat 4100. USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 168.25 \| £UK 150 \| JP¥ 22230] Book number: 3498 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	RENAUT (OR POSSIBLY JEAN RENART) (ANATOLE BOUCHERIE, EDITOR) Le Roman de Galerent, comte de Bretagne, par le trouvere Renaut, publie pour la premiere fois d'apres le manuscrit unique de la Bibliotheque Nationale (Galeran, Gallerent) Montpellier and Paris: Au Bureau des Publications de la Societe / Maisonneuve et Charles LeClerc, 1888. FIRST EDITION of this important romance of chivalry. XV, 220 pp. Printed on good wove paper. Frontispiece etched portrait of the editor, printed on fine laid paper. 8vo. Attractively bound in recent marbled boards. Original wraps preserved. Uncut. FINE AND BRIGHT. Very scarce. Bossuat 1224. USD 295.00 [Appr.: EURO 198.25 \| £UK 177 \| JP¥ 26231] Book number: 3186 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	NICOLE BOZON (LUCY TOULMIN SMITH AND PAUL MEYER, EDITORS) Les contes moralises de Nicole Bozon, frere mineur. Publies pour la premiere fois d'apres les manuscrits de Londres et de Cheltenham Paris: Firmin Didot / Societe d'Anciens Textes Francais, 1889. FIRST EDITION of this celebrated (and extremely entertaining) collection of fables, composed c. 1300 and designed for use in sermons. 2 leaves; LXXV, 333 pp.; 1 leaf. ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES PRINTED ON FINE WHATMAN WOVE PAPER. Title-page printed in red and black. Large 8vo. Attractively bound in recent marbled boards. Original parchment wraps preserved. FINE AND BRIGHT. Bossuat 3535; Vicaire I, 61. USD 375.00 [Appr.: EURO 252.25 \| £UK 225 \| JP¥ 33345] Book number: 2819 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	BRUNEL, CLOVIS (EDITOR) La Fille du comte de Pontieu, conte en prose. Versions du XIIIe et du XVe siecle. ("La comtesse de Ponthieu") Paris: Societe des Anciens Textes Francais (SATF) / Librairie Ancienne Honore Champion, 1923. First and only critical edition of this important prose tale. Includes both the 13th-century and the 15-century recensions. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Large 8vo, original cloth. Uncut. Binding lightly worn and discolored. INTERNALLY FINE AND BRIGHT. Bossuat 1310. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 \| £UK 30 \| JP¥ 4446] Book number: 3500 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	GERBERT (GILBERT) DE MONTREUIL (DOUGLAS LABAREE BUFFUM, EDITOR) Le Roman de la Violette ou de Gerart de Nevers par Gerbert (Gilbert) de Montreuil Paris: Societe des Anciens Textes Francais (SATF) / Honore Champion, 1928. FIRST CRITICAL EDITION of this important romance. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Large 8vo, original cloth. Uncut. FINE AND BRIGHT. Bossuat 1130. USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 64 \| £UK 57 \| JP¥ 8447] Book number: 3502 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	CAMBOULIU, F.R. (FRA ROCABERTI, DANTE, ANDREU FEBRER) Essai sur l'histoire de la litterature catalane...augmentee de la comedia de LA GLORIA D'AMOR Paris: Durand, 1858. A scholarly survey of Catalan literature. In the appendix we find the FIRST EDITION OF FRA ROCABERTI'S GLORIA D'AMOR, AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT MEDIEVAL VISION POEM, as well as THE FIRST EDITION OF TWO IMPORTANT FRAGMENTS OF ANDREU FEBRER'S TRANSLATION OF DANTE'S INFERNO (Canto I and the Ugolino episode from Canto XXXIII). 2 leaves, 189 pp. Printed on good wove paper. 8vo. Original wraps. Margins of front wrapper repaired. Internally FINE AND BRIGHT. Very scarce. USD 295.00 [Appr.: EURO 198.25 \| £UK 177 \| JP¥ 26231] Book number: 3285 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA Dietaris de la Generalitat de Catalunya (1411-1713) Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, 1994-2008. Ten volumes, complete. The complete proceedings of the Generalitat from its foundation until the disaster of 1713. Folio. THE DELUXE ISSUE, BOUND IN FULL LEATHER. Fine and bright. USD 1250.00 [Appr.: EURO 840.25 \| £UK 749.5 \| JP¥ 111149] Book number: 3426 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA Dietaris de la Generalitat de Catalunya (1411-1713) Barcelona: Generalitat de Catalunya, 1994-2008. Ten volumes, complete. The complete proceedings of the Generalitat from its foundation until the disaster of 1713. Folio. Publisher's wraps. Fine and bright. USD 975.00 [Appr.: EURO 655.25 \| £UK 584.5 \| JP¥ 86696] Book number: 3427 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	AGNES DE NAVARRE-CHAMPAGNE (PROSPER TARBE, EDITOR) Poesies d'Agnes de Navarre-Champagne (Agnes) Paris and Reims: Auguste Aubry and Brissart-Binet, 1856. First edition of the works of this important medieval poet. Edition limited to 300 copies, including 10 on blue paper and 255 on laid paper. This copy is printed on laid paper except for two quires, which are on blue paper. Unobtrusive stamp of the Museum of French Art on title-page. Large 8vo, bound in recent cloth, original wraps bound in. Uncut and fine. A rare book. USD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 117.75 \| £UK 105 \| JP¥ 15561] Book number: 1616 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	CHARTIER, ALAIN (PHILIPPE DE CHENNEVIERES, EDITOR) Rondeaux et ballades inedits d' Alain Chartier, publies d'apres un manuscrit de la Bibliotheque Mejanes, a Aix. Paris: Felix Poisson, 1846. FIRST EDITION of these newly-discovered works by Chartier. v, [10] pp. Introduction by Chennevieres. Text beautifully printed in red and black in black letter (Gothic type). Edition limited to 120 copies printed on fine handmade laid paper. Squarish 8vo. Original plain wraps, with "Alain Chartier" written in calligraphy on fron cover. Minimal wear and soiling to wraps. Internally uncut, bright, and fine. VERY RARE. USD 275.00 [Appr.: EURO 185 \| £UK 165 \| JP¥ 24453] Book number: 2742 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	CLOETTA, WILHELM (EDITOR) Les deux redactions en vers du moniage Guillaume Paris: Firmin-Didot / Societe des Anciens Textes Francais, 1906-1911. Two volumes, complete. FIRST EDITION of both versions of this highly important chanson de geste. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. From the collection of Brian Woldedge, whose 2-volumebibliography of medieval French prose fiction is still standard (his signature on front free endpaper of volume I). Large 8vo, original cloth. Uncut. Minor traces of wear to covers. Tiny marginal inkstain to first few leaves of volume II, else internally fine. Bossuat 583. USD 325.00 [Appr.: EURO 218.5 \| £UK 195 \| JP¥ 28899] Book number: 1266 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	COMPAGNI, DINO Cronaca fiorentina di Messer Dino Compagni dal MCCLXXX al MCCCXII (Compagni's Chronicle of Florence) (Cronica) Livorno: Glauco Masi, 1843. An early edition of this important chronicle. Compagni's history is especially important insofar as it recounts many of the events referred to in Dante's Divine Comedy. Printed on wove paper. 16mo. Bound in contemporary quarter cloth and decorated boards. Light wear to binding but overall a very good copy of a scarce item. USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 64 \| £UK 57 \| JP¥ 8447] Book number: 1716 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	CONSTANS, LEOPOLD (ED.) Le roman de Thebes Paris: Didot / Societe des Anciens Textes Francais, 1890. Two volumes, complete. First edition of this extremely important medieval French retelling of the Oedipus legend. Beautifully printed on fine laid paper. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Large 8vo, original cloth. Uncut and largely unopened. Minimal wear to extremities of bindings. Internally fine. Bossuat 1007. USD 325.00 [Appr.: EURO 218.5 \| £UK 195 \| JP¥ 28899] Book number: 1639 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	CONSTANS, LEOPOLD, EDITOR Le roman de Thebes Paris: Didot / Societe des Anciens Textes Francais, 1890. Two volumes, complete. First edition of this extremely important medieval French retelling of the Oedipus legend. One of 100 large-paper copies finely printed on Whatman wove paper. Published by the Societe des Anciens Textes Francais. Large 8vo, original wraps. Uncut and unopened. Wraps lightly soiled and chipped. Internally fine. Bossuat 1007. USD 475.00 [Appr.: EURO 319.25 \| £UK 284.75 \| JP¥ 42237] Book number: 1214 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.
	MAURICE AND PIERRE DE CRAON (G.-S. TREBUTIEN, EDITOR) Chansons de Maurice et de Pierre de Craon, poetes anglo-normands du XIIe siecle Caen: B. Mancel, 1843. FIRST EDITION of the songs of Maurice and Pierre de Craon. Maurice de Craon and his son Pierre were Anglo-Norman nobles who composed these songs in England during the late 12th and early 13th centuries--only a few generations after the conquest. Of the five poems printed here, two are probably authentic. Edition limited to 120 numbered copies, of which this is one of 85 printed on fine laid paper. Initialed in ink by the editor. Squarish 4to. Bound in marbled boards. Library perforation stamp on title-page, else fine and bright. Bossuat 2366; Brunet II, 407; Cole 1843/1; Frere I, 305; Graesse VII, 222; Techener II, 9540. Rare. USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 64 \| £UK 57 \| JP¥ 8447] Book number: 2828 Click here to order or inquire at Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery.